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The Building Is At... Twenty-First and South Lewis...on the northeast corner. I used to have a physician who was officed there. It's also where the short-lived commercial classical FM station, KCMA---run by the late Dr. John Major---was housed for a while. I worked for KCMA prior to its move there, however, when its studios were just northwest of Owasso in a pretty pasture.
I don't remember the building having a specific name, however. It faces west
toward Utica Square.
I believe the second or one of the next 3-Ders was "Fort Ti" which had gripping scenes like an Indian walking toward the audience with a blazing torch as if it was about to consume the theatre goers. The former movie had "former" Sherlock Holmes sidekick Nigel Bruce in it as I recall and the latter flick boasted George Montgomery. who was Dinah Shore's husband at the time. The best use of 3-D I ever have seen was a few years ago when my wife and I got front row seats for the musical "EFX" starring David Cassidy at one of the Vegas casinos. Toward the end of the performance we were told to put on cheap 3-D cardboard glasses at each table to enhance the effect and it sure as hell did.
And then there were "The Stewardesses", in 3D and XXX.
One of his most memorable radio plays features a rapidly-growing chicken heart that threatens to engulf the earth. I heard it on CBS Radio Mystery Theater in the 70s, I believe.
No news, but it's still under consideration.
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They also showed 2 Three Stooges 3D shorts before that movie. I remember one of them was titled "Spooks" but I don't remember the other one.
The thing about 3D on television (in my opinion) is you really need a giant
screen to appreciate the effects. Back in the early '80s, the biggest screens
most people had were 26-27 inches (I had a 26" Sony) so the effects were
kind of lost. I remember all the hoopla. I enjoyed the 3 Stooges shorts more
than the movie.
Saw this on AllAccess.com today: Scott "Scooter" Segraves Retires After 50 Of Radio Country KXKC/LAFAYETTE, LA says a tearful goodbye to veteran radio guru SCOTT "SCOOTER" SEGRAVES who retires today after 50+ years in the business. He has been with KXKC for the past 13 years and served as afternoon driver until last year when he stepped down to take on production director duties. MD SEAN RILEY told ALL ACCESS that SEGRAVES was a class act that would be sorely missed by everyone.
Scooter was honored as a Tulsa Radio Icon this year. Unforeseen circumstances prevented him from making it to Tulsa for the occasion, but he sent this MP3 for the Tulsa Press Club audience.
I remember it was a gorilla movie and, once we got the Koolees digested, we fell asleep. The glasses didn't work well either. It just looked like a red and blue monkey coming at us. (Here is a page of 3-D photos from "Gorilla at Large", and free 3D glasses...webmaster) I do remember being on a broadcast about "Special Kids" with Jerry Webber when I was about 4 or 5. It was a show about kids with special talents. I was the kid that they spotlighted because I had a 180 I.Q. However, when the camera was turned on me, I climbed up my mother's dress (apparently flashing Tulsa).
The funniest thing was, when Jerry asked me what did I like to do, I said
"Read"! When he asked me what I liked to read, I said "Books!" -- There went
my IQ points!
Hondo was one of the films that Wayne actually owned the rights to and his son Michael did the 3D thing to try an stir interest becuase he wanted to market the films he owned. He never had much luck and the films have never been on video and were rarely on TV.
Michael Wayne died a couple of years ago and whoever is running things now
has gotten the films released on DVD. Hondo, McLintock and The High and the
Mighty are now in stores.
Well, imprinted on my memory as a 5 - 7 year old in the early 1980s - it seemed that the whole city was alive with the anticipation of this event, maybe it was just my excitement - but to this day (I am 30) I can still hear the jingle - "TULSA 23 GOES 3-D, TULSA 23 GOES 3-D, TULSA 23 GOES 3-D" with a manly chorus guiding you to go to QT for your glasses. I do not remember what movie it was, but it seemed to be a big deal in 1981 - 1982 area, and I think it was King Kong or something. Does anyone know what the movie was? (I believe it was "Gorilla at Large" with George Barrows in the gorilla suit. He donned the same apparel for "Robot Monster"...webmaster) Also - I think fair food should be available year round... Wouldn't it be nice to go a drive through and get cheese dogs, fried twinkies, funnel cakes, and fresh squeezed lemonade, fresh dairy shakes, - I would eat there. I cannot tell you how much fun it is to read these guestbooks and I appreciate the chance to participate as an outsider looking in enviously as a long ago want-to-be broadcaster. What happened to the rumors from years back that Gary Shore wanted to come back to Tulsa? I feel like Channel 2 lost the best forecaster in the market when thay made him go, and would love it if he would come back. I remember one of the most traumatic events of the Mannford-Prue tornado on that wicked Sunday morning in 1984 - taking cover while watching Gary Shore break into the "Planet of the Apes" movie. What an adrenaline rush and tragic day for those communities. To me it seems no one had the great style and accuracy that Gary Shore. Lazalier was fine, and Threlkeld is OK... but bring back who Jerry Webber always referred to as "Squire". Enough afternoon rambling from a citizen... I love these insider memories of the Tulsa TV and radio, and Tulsa culture. As a lifelong resident - it is nice to learn things I never knew about.
Speaking of Alsuma, does anyone remember the Catfish Farms at the NE corner
of 51st & Mingo?
It would be nice if the DVD came back in print too. Next week, George Harrison's "The Concert for Bangladesh" will be rereleased on DVD, which also features Leon and his band doing their "Jumping Jack Flash/Youngblood" medley, along with Native guitarist Jesse Ed Davis playing through the entire show. Leon also does a nice version of "Beware of Darkness" from "All Things Must Pass" with Harrison on the disc. Now if we can just get those Collins Kids clips on DVD...
Related page on this site: George Harrison in Tulsa, November 21, 1974.
My brother or someone said that some venue tried whole turnips on a stick - dipped in cheese, but too many teeth were lost in the pursuit of "this new experiment in dining". Turnips were supposed to be cold and crunchie and it took a lotta hot faux Velveeta to stick on one. A candy-apple wooden spike was the holder. Unlike fried ice cream - some things are not meant to be...
BTW in storm-tagged Lewziana - good old Community Coffee now has coffee shops
that put a crinkle in Starbucks' sales. Good product - much cheaper lattes.
ya'all. They supposedly also gave a couple of tons of coffee away to the
Red Cross and community emergency response orgs after Katrina and Rita...good
people.
Nostradamus, Century 10, Quatrain 49: "It will be seized and plunged into the Vat."
"Superbit" is a Sony home video invention. All it really is is that there are no extras on the disc. By this I mean trailers, commentary tracks, documentaries, etc. What this also means is the storage space saved by the lack of extras is devoted to the film itself, giving it a higher bitrate and much better quality. I haven't seen one myself, so I don't know whether it's worth it or not.
Also, the Roy Rogers soft drink was more of a sour tasting fruit punch kind
of thing. Can't imagine why it didn't make it.
I went across the street to Best Buy and found three new copies of the film for $10 each. The only problem is that the new version has the word "Superbit" on the cover. I asked one of the workers there if it was a plain old DVD, or if new technology was involved. The guy "helping" me said he was confused about the concept himself. We finally found someone in the building who said that, yes, it was a normal DVD ("Superbit" is kind of the "Living Stereo" of the new millennium). What was unique about the experience is that I usually get blank stares at Best Buy;
1. There was the time I stumbled over a new format of movies for the PS2; I was told that they were not movies, they were video games. I don’t know about anyone else, but I want to play the "Jackie Brown" game.
This is a long winded way of noting that if you are looking for music and Starship is still closed, and you're tired of dealing with people who think music began with Tupac's solo career, the T-Town Record Show will take place this Friday evening (6pm-11pm) and all day Saturday (3am-4pm) next door to Rob's Records in the old Boman Twin (the current Laserquest) Building at 2909 S. Sheridan. They will be buying, selling, and trading all forms of memorabilia and media, including records, tapes, CDs, and DVDs. Admission is $3 and tables are still available. In answer to earlier posts: To Maestro Bagsby: Wow! There's a making of AJA? I gotta check it out! (Classic Albums - Steely Dan: Aja)
And by his haircut, Roy Lee looks like
he's ready to search for the Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
I work at a large public university in the city I'm located in (yeah, take one guess). One of the programs at our school does physician's assistant training. For some reason unknown to me, their name is abbreviated MEDEX. And every time I see the program on some document, I ALWAYS get earwormed with the Med-X jingle. Two more things: -- There was a Godfather's in Mayo Meadow in the late 70s and early 80s. We used to get pizza from there; it was the closest pizza joint to where I grew up, and the concept of pizza delivery in Tulsa was still a few years off. -- Anyone remember Shaw's at 31st and Yale? We probably went through their drive-through once a week. They retired sometime in the late 80s, and Shaw's became a Daylight Donuts.
Thank YOU for putting a name to Shaw's; I've had a mental block on it.
My dad, who was an accountant at Zebco, got in on the ground floor of this company and spent a lot of time on weekends working for these people. I remember going with him to a shopping center somewhere where Mr. Zing & Tuffy made a personal appearance to promote Roy Rogers drink. I mentioned it to John Chick later when I worked at 8 and he just rolled his eyes. Never got to meet Roy or Dale though. I wish I had. Years later, I asked dad if he made a bunch of money from that. He told me they paid him in stock that he still had and if I needed a room papered he'd be glad to give it all to me.
I do recall the Roy Rogers Restaurants from the early 70s, featuring "a roast beef sand-wich, with the kiss of flame." Apparently, no one else on the internet remembers that jingle. Was the RR drink like a cherry Coke?
After working with Mike Bruchas at Atlantic Video I moved to San Francisco working for post houses Western Images (first Flame on the west coast) and then Varitel. At Varitel I executed the re-design of Entertainment Tonight via 168 Design Group/Paramount and was also one of two compositors who executed the launch package (all show grfx/id's/etc) for The National Geographic Channel. Then I got a phone call from an early HD adopter... My wife Loreen, daughter Regina, son Elliot and I moved to Minneapolis in 2001 where I was a senior compositor/fx artist for an HD post facility called Hi-Wire. Immediately prior we had bought our first house in CA. We picked up shop, got renters in the door and moved to Minnesota. I parted ways with Hi-Wire earlier this year, and began working on a business plan for my own finishing and effects boutique. As of Oct. I am fully funded and hope to have my location finalized and start taking delivery of equipment as early as December. I will have a Discreet Fire, 24P capable D5 and HdCam decks (in addition to NTSC and PAL digibeta's, etc, and share space with composer/sound designer Paul Hartwig. Feel free to be in touch, and check out my online business card/website...soon to have demo reels and other bells and whistles.
For those of you that know Dave Barber, ask him about where "Brick &
Wood" is going sometime soon. Exciting!
When they first put it in cans - one had a slight taste of green pepper or something strange in cans but it was different in bottles! We figgered it was eating the aluminum on the inside of the cans! I miss DOUBLE COLA and saw RC for the first time in a long time - out in rural VA at an Oktoberfest. Do any of you remember when Diet Rite Cola made flavored drinks - my favorite drink in jr. high. Wishin' it was still made now.
Re "alkyhol" - could never figure out about MICKEY's big green glass (Big
Mouths) beer or malt liquor.
For a while, Pearl Brewing company (makers of Billy Beer, MASH Beer, etc) had a product called "Big Jug of Beer". I think the idea was that if you drank enough of this swill, you no longer cared about anything. Usually resulted in a horizontal posture. And speaking of snake oil, how many remember "Quittin' Time" beer? MMMM, always good with a "Junkyard Dog".
Matching items on the "Concentration" board slowly revealed a rebus puzzle, the correct solution of which won the game. The show was hosted by Hugh Downs on NBC in the 1960s.
I heard in the 70s that Brown Derby was a good hair conditioner.
A couple of quick movie notes...there is a well-done article about Gailard Sartain by Jason Collington in the 10/14 Spot section of the Tulsa World. It's in connection with the premiere of Mr. S.' new movie, "Elizabethtown" (10/15: now reviewed here by Gary Chew).
Also, the new cinematic James Bond has been announced: Daniel Craig. He
previously appeared in "Sylvia", reviewed here
by Gary Chew.
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